Best Score For Screen Musical

[SSS DDD]

Hans Christian Andersen .......brilliant end to end to compliment a well
chosen bitter sweet story and great role for Kaye. One of the sweetest
films ever.

[Bill Steele]

In article <18146-51...@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>,

The title song is a bit over the top, but "Inchworm" ranks up there with
"Feed the Birds." And yes, I think the Mary Poppins score is in the same
league.

On TCM, Dena Kaye was saying Danny always wanted to play character
roles; this is probably as close as he got.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:21:18 -0500, Bill Steele <ws...@cornell.edu>
wrote:

One of my favorite comedians in the 1950s when I was a kid. This has
to be a classic scene, and check out the lovely Glynis Johns:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ9f2rnjB84

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[SSS DDD]

MP is also top drawer. I recall a reviewer from The Times bemoaned the
fact that the Shermans did the score......he later ate his words in his
review.

[calvin]

If by 'screen musical' you mean one not adapted
from a play, then 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'
(1964) is a strong contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6hI5g15aQ

A favorite from childhood is 'Summer Stock' (1950),
one of the songs from which was Judy Garland's
'Get Happy':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-rBZREQMw

[dm16...@gmail.com]

State Fair (1945) - The only musical score written directly for film by Rodgers and Hammerstein

Dave M

[Mack A. Damia]

In that case, I'll go with "Kiss Me Kate" (1953).
Music by Cole Porter.

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/w09BVvPt/05_-_So_In_Love.html

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[calvin]

On Jan 23, 8:46 pm, dm1657...@gmail.com wrote:
> State Fair (1945) - The only musical score written directly for film by Rodgers and Hammerstein

... and remade in 1962.

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:23:53 PM UTC-5, SSS DDD wrote:

For "sweetness" in a musical I always go with "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade."

[Tom]

Man, talk about flashbacks...

+1

Tom

[calvin]

A play that I have on LPs, but had forgotten that 'Marat/Sade' was
made into
a 1967 movie, directed by Peter Brook, now queued on Netflix. Thanks.

[dm16...@gmail.com]

....with Pat Boone. Yipes!!

Dave M

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:58:15 PM UTC-5, calvin wrote:

> A play that I have on LPs, but had forgotten that 'Marat/Sade' was
> made into a 1967 movie, directed by Peter Brook, now queued on Netflix. Thanks.

Is the LP of the Brook production? I have "issues" with Brook's interpretation, but that's Artaud under the bridge, as it were. Judy Collins spun off at least one hit from the play's songs.

[gtr]

I just remembered "One From the Heart". I loved that one.

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:32:03 AM UTC-5, gtr wrote:

> I just remembered "One From the Heart". I loved that one.

Really? If it had stayed as a low-budget film, it might have worked. Love the Waits' tunes but can't say much for the movie.

[Bill Anderson]

The best score for a screen musical is THE WIZARD OF OZ. You're
welcome. Now what do I win?

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:34:24 AM UTC-5, Bill Anderson wrote:

> The best score for a screen musical is THE WIZARD OF OZ. You're
> welcome. Now what do I win?
>

The Blu-ray director's cut of "Can't Stop The Music."

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:58:15 PM UTC-5, calvin wrote:

> A play that I have on LPs, but had forgotten that 'Marat/Sade' was
> made into a 1967 movie, directed by Peter Brook, now queued on Netflix. Thanks.

You'll hate this calvin, but for others, here's Judy Collins and some Marat/Sade tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8xr2ZfY4I

[calvin]

The 'occupiers' are just like the Bolsheviks in 1917
except that the Bolsheviks were not pampered brats.

[Stone me]

<dm16...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b2531ffd-ad8e-49ac...@googlegroups.com...

Yes, I remember thinking that the Pat Boone role (1962) might have been
given
to someone better, since the music was quite memorable.

It goes down to taste, so I throw in "Top Hat". Even without the dancing.
I could have mentioned "Girl Crazy"(wonderful songs) but the film was a
letdown.

Stone me.

[notbob]

On 2013-01-24, Bill Anderson <billand...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The best score for a screen musical is THE WIZARD OF OZ. You're
> welcome. Now what do I win?

Zip!

Everyone knows it's Oklahoma, followed closely by The Music Man.
Where else can you here "kerplop" and "shipoopie" at all, let alone
set to music? ;)

nb

[notbob]

On 2013-01-24, Stone me <m...@hollywood.com> wrote:

> Yes, I remember thinking that the Pat Boone role (1962) might have been
> given
> to someone better, since the music was quite memorable.
>
> It goes down to taste, so I throw in "Top Hat". Even without the dancing.
> I could have mentioned "Girl Crazy"(wonderful songs) but the film was a
> letdown.

The burr under my saddle is, Netflix doesn't have Lili ('53) w/ Leslie Caron, either
streaming or DVD. Blasphemy!

nb

[madar...@gmail.com]

I want the version of Marat/Sade with Danny Kaye and Pat Boone and songs by the Sherman Bros.

[gtr]

I loved it all, but here we were talking about the score, so that was my focus.

[hislop]

West Side Story
Hair as a stage musical probably had more hits of the songs than any
other did.
They don't make musicals like they did in the 60s any more.

[Bill Steele]

In article <a9d4a699-ae4c-45d9...@googlegroups.com>,

Well, the original was Dick Haymes, likewise a contemporary pop singer.
At least they were singers. I presume Jeanne Crain and Pamela Tiffen
were dubbed.

[Bill Steele]

In article
<53903806-1f14-4717...@z8g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,

Which brings us to Meet Me in St. Louis and The Harvey Girls. any f tose
songs weere on the "Hit Parade" (for the youngsters, that was what came
before the Top 40)

For me, one of the tests of a score is the "little" songs that *weren't*
big hits, like "A Great Big World" in The Harvey Girls, or "Out of My
Dreams" in Oklahoma. And as above mentioned, "Inchworm" or "Feed the
Birds."

[wlah...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:51:25 AM UTC-5, calvin wrote:

> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8xr2ZfY4I
>
> The 'occupiers' are just like the Bolsheviks in 1917
> except that the Bolsheviks were not pampered brats.

So, they're not alike and that may have something to do with the French Revolution but I think this is where I came in . . .

[notbob]

On 2013-01-24, hislop <takecar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hair as a stage musical probably had more hits of the songs than any
> other did.

True dat! I heard the sountrack for Hair right after coming home
after 4 yrs in the service. Man! ....I wore that LP out!! Excellent
songs. I mean musically, not jes the contemporary hip lyrics. The
lyrics have not aged so well, but the music is timeless ...or would be
if we hadn't heard every song track till sick to death of 'em. ;)

nb